End-of-Life Issues: A Provider’s Guide for Patients and Caregivers
A valuable new reference from the publisher of Medical Ethics Advisor and Healthcare Risk Management
The emotional toll surrounding the end of someone’s life is not only devastating to the patient and the family but also the health care providers involved. End-of-Life Issues: A Provider’s Guide for Patients and Caregivers, a new resource from AHC Media LLC, will provide you with the information and tools you need to communicate effectively with patients and caregivers during this difficult end-of-life process.
Specifically, you will benefit from:
Useful guidelines for delivering bad news, answering difficult questions, and educating patients and caregivers;
Strategies for implementing an end-of-life care plan;
Answers to concerns over withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments;
Guidelines on assessing and treating pain;
Tips on eliciting end-of-life preferences; and
Forms and checklists for educating patients and care givers.
Order your risk-free copy of End-of-Life Issues: A Provider's Guide for Patients and Caregivers today for just $199 plus $17.95 shipping and handling.
Table of Contents Provider’s checklist
End-of-life care: Q&As for communicating with patients and families
End of life: Whole patient assessment
Pain management: Nonspecific signs and symptoms and steps for management
Death and dying critical indicators checklist
Witholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment
Guidelines for determining brain death
Determination of brain death in children less than one year of age
For health care providers: End-of-life conversations
Tips to remember when talking to patients about surrogates
Checklist review following an expected death
Determining the appropriate decision maker
Guide for assessing medical decision-making capacity
Seven end-of-life care domains
Delivering bad news: Some practical considerations
Eliciting end-of-life treatment preferences
Talking with the dying patient
General principles of pain control for the dying (Part I)
General principles of pain control for the dying (Part II)
Pre-planning for patients
Advance directives
Advance planning: Preferences for end-of-life care
Choosing the right doctor
Appointment information
Checklists to guide you
Assisted living
Assisted living: Costs and contracts
Assisted living: Quality of life
The basics of assisted living
Assisted living: Special care units
Caregiver support material
Discussions to have with your family member
Caregiver decision questionnaire
Caregiver’s log
A checklist of things to do after a person dies
Checklists - assessing needs
Forms and guidelines
Advance directive form (CA)
Health care proxy (NY)
Statutory durable power of attorney (TX)
Texas statutory medical power of attorney form
Directive for medical services (Utah)
Do not resuscitate order (Michigan)
Oklahoma do not resuscitate order consent form
Sample health care proxy
Sample living will
Sample: Advance directive for health care (OK)
Sample advance directive from the Rabbinical Council of America
Order your risk-free copy of End-of-Life Issues: A Provider's Guide for Patients and Caregivers today for just $199, plus $17.95 shipping and handling!
END-OF-LIFE ISSUES: A PROVIDER’S GUIDE FOR PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS
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